Books like The Hours
The Hours by Michael Cunningham reads as melancholic, experimental. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
79% genome match
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust · 1913
Shares the lovetime thread
69% genome match
Ulysses
James Joyce · 1922
Shares the maximal thread
69% genome match
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
69% genome match
1Q84
Haruki Murakami · 2009
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
83% genome match
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
69% genome match
Hyperion
Dan Simmons · 1989
Shares the maximal + lovetime thread
69% genome match
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023
Shares the lovetime + maximal thread
69% genome match
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 1927
Shares the maximal thread
69% genome match
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge
Rainer Maria Rilke · 1910
Both explore art
68% genome match
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